Sentences with phrase «vote against the government last»

In an article in the Evening Standard defending her decision to vote against the government last night, the Conservative former education secretary Nicky Morgan says the government should drop the amendment to the EU withdrawal bill fixing 29 March 2019 as Brexit day before it gets debated next week.

Not exact matches

He says he last voted against his party on a three - line whip in the 1970s - and when he did so, two years later Margaret Thatcher appointed him to her government.

This has led some to suggest the government ignored dissent among the Lords to shore up Commons» support, with last night's defeat marking only the third time peers have voted against a government order.

The House of Lords last night voted against the government order on casinos, leaving culture secretary Tessa Jowell struggling to claim plans are «very much alive».

Last night, 48 Labour MPs defied interim leader Harriet Harman's call to abstain on the Conservatives» welfare plans and voted against the Government.

Malcolm Chisholm quit his role as communities minister in the Scottish parliament last night after voting against the government.

Harper voted against all the reform options in the last parliament when Jack Straw made a late attempt in the final years of the Labour government to burnish its reformist credentials.

The impact of this was also clearly demonstrated the last time the Conservatives were in government: even though the newer cohorts of Conservative MPs were then the most Eurosceptic in their attitudes, they were also the least likely to vote against the Maastricht Bill.

During the last Parliament, I voted against our government when it introduced legislation to cut the deficit in half by 2010.

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

Whether you think the Labour leader's last - minute gauntlet yesterday at «tea - time» - as many commentators have so quaintly described Miliband's 11th hour (ie 5.15 pm) threat to vote against the government's initial motion to intervene in Syria - was politicking or boldness in the national interest, it may not necessarily be the reason behind the suddenly watered - down vote.

Amidu was also an ardent critic of the NDC government, and he boldly asked Ghanaians to vote against them in the last election after he described them as corrupt.

«On top of that, Mr. Latimer voted against last year's historic property tax cap vote and he went MIA for Governor Cuomo's pension reform vote last week that will ease costs on local governments.

Today's debate is likely to be the last chance for the Commons to debate the bill, with Ed Miliband hoping enough Liberal Democrat MPs will have been unnerved by the lack of support from their own members over the weekend that they might be prepared to vote against the government.

Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.

Last week, piqued by the failure of Lords reform, Nick Clegg categorically stated Lib Dem MPs would vote against the Government's proposals.

She's not a typical New Labour career politician as some have claimed but has campaigned for affordable housing and voted against Trident and the erosion of civil liberties under the last Labour government.

The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings that it would derail the entire measure.

Opportunistic House Republicans incorporated the fallout from that abuse of government resources into a last - minute amendment that led nearly half of the members of the majority party to vote against a bill that they otherwise strongly supported.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco, voted 15 - 9 against formal reconsideration of the 2 - 1 ruling last June by a panel of the court that the inclusion of the words «under God» in the pledge was an unconstitutional government establishment of religion.